e-bulletin September 2012 LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Web: http:// /www.l-ags.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lagsociety Elected Leadership President... Marilyn Cutting mailto:president@ @L-AGS.org First VP and Program Chair... Cheryl Palmer mailto:program@l-ags.org Second VP and Membership Chair... Teresa Fraser mailto:membership@l-ags.org Corresponding Secretary... Anne Les mailto:corresponding@l-ags.org Recording Secretary... Patricia Northam mailto:recording@ @L-AGS.org Business Manager... Duncan Tanner mailto:business@l-ags.org Happy Grandparents Day! This is the e-bulletin from the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society (L-AGS), provided monthly to our members. If you would prefer not to receive this e-bulletin or other information, please send a message to mailto:membership@l-ags..org and your address will be removed from our distribution list Pleasee share your photos and stories of the photos. If you would like the banner to include any of your photos or if you have a story about one of the photos, please send them to Debbie at: mailto:bulletin.manager@l-ags.org. There are large versions of these photos located on the final page. If you have a special genealogy or local history event or announcement you would like to see included, pleasee submit via email to: mailto:bulletin.manager@l-ags.org. Special Notices New Member Welcomee to D. Lynn Shaeffer from Pleasanton, California! Kudos to L-AGS! Our organization will be presented with the Museum on Main s Heritage Award on September 15. Writing Group is having a Contest!!! The contest is open to L-AGS members who have participated in the Writing Group, in person or via email. Also extends to any L-AGS members who join the writing group before the end of the contest. We will have three months of writing challenges and you may enter up to three of these writings. See the Writing Group section for details!
This Month s Contents Summary of Meetings o General Meeting o Tri-Valley TMG Users Group Meeting o Writing Group o Lunch n Learn o Summary of Last Board Meeting L-AGS Genealogy Library Roots Tracer News Special Events Around Town Cooperative Efforts Help Wanted Future Meetings Banner Photos Summary of Meetings Visitors are welcome free of charge to each of these meetings. General Meeting: Blogs, Podcasts, Webinars and Wikis OH MY When: Tuesday, September 11, 2012-7:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Kim von Aspern-Parker The Master Genealogist Group: Create a Chronological Family Event Narrative Report When: Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:00 a.m. Chair: Kay Speaks Writing Group: Personal and Family History When: CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER (please check your Writing Group Email for the contest assignment) Chair: Debbie Mascot Lunch n Learn: Social Media and Genealogy When: CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER Chair: Debbie Mascot Board Meeting When: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:00 p.m. Members are welcome to attend board meetings. Please contact the Membership Chair for location- mailto:membership@l-ags.org August 2012 Page 2
GENERAL MEETING NOTE: Members please sign in at the membership table upon arrival at the monthly General Meeting. Please have your guests also sign in. Before heading home, please remember to leave your nametag at the membership table. TOPIC: Blogs, Podcasts, Webinars and Wikis OH MY GUEST SPEAKER: Kim von Aspern-Parker DATE: Tuesday, September 11, 2012-7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton Map to the Meeting Site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/pls-bethemek.jpg Ever wondered why you would want to read blogs; or maybe you've heard the word blog but aren't quite sure what one is? Podcasts sound like some kind of alien garbage thrown out of a UFO. What's that got to do with genealogy? Or maybe you've heard about Webinars but have no way of knowing where to find some on genealogy. And Wikis...what the heck is a Wiki? This presentation will help you learn what these new terms are and why you want to know about them. Blogs, Podcasts, Webinars and Wikis are all wonderful new internet tools you should be using to grow your genealogy. Come and find out how. For additional information contact: Cheryl Palmer, Program Chairperson, email: mailto:program@l-ags.org. TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP The Master Genealogist Software Topic: How to Create a Chronological Family Event Narrative Report Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 9:00 a.m. Noon Lunch Meet Up, Noon: The Habit Burger Grill & Panda Express Food Court, Bernal & Valley Avenue Shopping Center, Pleasanton Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/pls-kollcenter.jpg Chair: Kay Speaks, tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org Instructors: Sue Johnston and Kay Speaks Long time TMG user Bruce Garner will demonstrate how to create a chronological family event narrative custom report used in his recent book. Our homework, create your own custom report using TMG s Languages option learned at our September meeting and bring to the October meeting. NEW TV-TMG BLOG: Please be sure to check our new TV-TMG blog website, http://tvtmgreports.blogspot.com/, before each meeting for upto-date information regarding our TV-TMG meetings, including possible changes to current and future meetings. From this website you will find links to our other website resources. Learning assignments and challenges August 2012 Page 3
are posted to this website. Sign up to follow our new blog, Exploring Custom Reports with TV-TMG Users Group. Here is where you will find more information about publishing and sharing our TV-TMG source templates that approximate Mills Evidence Explained. These templates may be downloaded for personal use by individuals. Societies and groups of individuals wishing to use our templates should contact the L-AGS s TVTMG chair at mailto:tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. We are researching options for publishing our templates online. WRITING GROUP Writing Your Personal and Family History Date: CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER Location: R.S.V.P for meeting location Chair: Debbie Mascot, mailto:writing.sig.chair@l-ags.org Please check your Writing Group email for information about the next theme. To join the writing group email list, please send a note to mailto:changes@l-ags.org with Add me to the Writing SIG list in the subject line. LUNCH N LEARN Social Media and Genealogy Date: CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER Location: To be determined Chair: Debbie Mascot and Kay Speaks SUMMARY OF L-AGS BOARD MEETING August Board Meeting held on August 28, 2012 L-AGS now has 174 memberships for a total of 216 members. Sign ups for volunteering at the Heritage Happenings will be forthcoming. Seven volunteers will be assisting with the Ask Granny program to be held at Heritage Estates on September 20. Beginning with the September meeting, all announcements will be posted on the bulletin board rather than presented by individual board members. After the speaker s presentation, attendees may wish to talk with contacts regarding the announcements. This change was decided in order to keep the focus on our speakers and to give them as much time as possible as well as to streamline the business part of the meeting. New members and guests will continue to be introduced. August 2012 Page 4
PLEASANTON GENEALOGY CENTER A L-AGS docent is available at the Pleasanton City Library Wednesday 10 AM-1 PM and 6 PM - 9 PM, or by appointment, e-mail: mailto:docents.chair@l-ags.org. The Pleasanton Genealogy Center, jointly supported by L-AGS, the Friends of the Pleasanton Library, and the Pleasanton Public Library, contains the largest collection of genealogy books, CDs and online databases in the Tri-Valley. The L-AGS genealogy book collection resides in the Genealogy Section of the Pleasanton City Library. The Pleasanton Library provides access to the following subscription genealogy databases: Ancestry.com New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) Fold3.com (previously Footnote) Heritage Quest (in Library & at home) PRESERVE YOUR STORIES IN THE ROOTS TRACER Publish or Regret Will your descendants regret your failure to publish? Hopefully you are putting the finishing touches on your first article for The Roots Tracer. If you need assistance composing your story, the Roots Tracer staff mailto:tracer@lags.org and/or mailto:managing.editor@l- AGS.org is willing and able to help you. Written articles should be approximately 300 to 1,000 words. Photos and lineage charts always increase the reader s interest in your revelations. Begin now with a small article. A few paragraphs are a beginning. Your initial success will be your springboard for braver future articles. Tell all of us the tale of your favorite research discovery. Which of your findings filled you with awe, surprise and pride? Our Roots Tracer offers all members the opportunity to preserve their family chronicles in print and on the Internet. Some generations don t care, but other generations will. We want to make sure that, when someone is interested, even 100 years from now, the basic information will be there for them in the Library of Congress as well as on the World Wide Web. Our memories are a library of information that could be irretrievably lost. We can honor the struggles that our ancestors went through...they shouldn t be forgotten, especially the women, who are less frequently found in public documents. August 2012 Page 5
SPECIAL EVENTS OTHER LOCAL GENEALOGY GROUP MEETINGS AND EVENTS FamilySearch Website and Genealogy Utilities, September 22, 1:30 p.m. Oakland, California. For more information see: http://www.macgen.org. 14th Annual Family History Day, October 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. California State Archives, Sacramento, California. For more information, please see: http://fhdnewsline.blogspot.com. Fall Seminar with Thomas W. Jones: Proven Methods for Genealogical Success: Four Lectures, November 3. Menlo Park, CA. For more information, please see: http://www.smcgs.org. You may visit our L-AGS website for a listing of other local societies: http://www.l-ags.org/lagslinks.html#genealogicalsocieties The San Francisco Bay Area Genealogy Calendar blog also features a number of meetings and events within 75 miles of San Francisco: http://sfbagenealogy.blogspot.com COOPERATIVE EFFORTS In an effort to provide the local area with the best possible resources and capabilities in genealogy, L-AGS participates in ongoing cooperative endeavors with several organizations. LIVERMORE LDS FAMILY HISTORY CENTER L-AGS is not affiliated with the Mormon (LDS) Church. L-AGS does however partner with the Livermore LDS Family History Center (FHC) for various non-denominational genealogical events such as educational seminars, guest speakers, indexing projects and special interest groups. LDS facilities at their Mocho Street, Livermore complex are often used for these. Several L-AGS members, both LDS and non-lds, volunteer as docents at the FHC. They are available to assist you in your genealogy research. The FHC has several subscription research sites not readily available elsewhere. The FHC is open Mondays 9 a.m. 3 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday evenings 6 p.m. 9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. 4 p.m. For further information please contact the center at (925) 443-2750 during these hours. Center location map: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/liv-fhc.jpg HELP WANTED Library Docent. Docent needed one Wednesday morning a month from 10am to 1pm. Contact the docent chair at mailto:docents.chair@l-ags.org. Proofreaders. Multiple projects need proofreaders. Contact Dick Finn at mailto:rwfinn@yahoo.com. August 2012 Page 6
FUTURE L-AGS GENERAL MEETINGS AND OUR REGULAR SCHEDULE Note: Some meetings have special schedules and locations during summer and holiday seasons. Check the specific listings above for details or contact the meeting Leader. Topics of Future General Meetings Date Topic Presenter October 9, 2012 The Records Behind The WW1 Draft Registration Cards Susan G. Johnston Regular Scheduled Events Note: Some meetings have special schedules and locations during summer and holiday seasons. Check the specific listings above for details or contact the meeting Leader. General Meeting Cheryl Palmer, Program Chair Second Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Congregation Beth Emek 3400 Nevada Court Pleasanton Map: http://www.l- AGS.org/maps/Pls-BethEmek.jpg Tri-Valley TMG Users Group Kay Speaks, TMG Leader Third Saturday 9 a.m. Noon (PLEASE CHECK THE SCHEDULE AS THIS FREQUENTLY CHANGES) 7077 Koll Center Parkway Suite 110 Pleasanton Map: http://www.l- AGS.org/maps/Pls-KollCenter.jpg Writing Group Debbie Mascot Lunch n Learn Debbie Mascot and Kay Speaks One Sunday a Month (TBD) 1 p.m. 3 p.m. One weekday every other month (TBD) 11:30a.m. 1p.m. R.S.V.P. for address R.S.V.P. for address August 2012 Page 7
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